{"id":289379,"date":"2026-02-09T21:43:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289379\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:43:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:43:47","slug":"emma-raducanu-retires-in-qatar-opener-after-on-court-blood-pressure-test-emma-raducanu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289379\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu retires in Qatar opener after on-court blood pressure test | Emma Raducanu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Emma Raducanu retired during the third set of her first-round match with the qualifier Camila Osorio at the Qatar Open, having tried to play on after taking a medical timeout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The British No 1 was looking to move swiftly on from the disappointment of losing in straight sets on Saturday against the home \u00adfavourite Sorana Cirstea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/07\/emma-raducanu-slumps-to-straight-sets-defeat-in-transylvania-open-final\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the \u00adTransylvania Open final<\/a>, a match she described as \u201cvery difficult emotionally and physically\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Raducanu \u2013 who split from her coach Francisco Roig after her \u00adsecond-round exit at the Australian Open \u2013 had made a positive start in Doha, building on an early break to close out the first set 6-2 in 38 \u00adminutes. But the world No 80 Osorio \u2013 who won a WTA Challenger event in Manila last month \u2013 regrouped for the second set, as Raducanu struggled to find her range from the baseline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The pressure from Osorio soon told as she broke Raducanu then held to move ahead 4-2 before maintaining her momentum to take it 6-4 and level the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Raducanu was broken again at the start of the deciding set, \u00adchoosing not to chase a drop shot to the net before calling for the physio. After a lengthy conversation \u2013 and having her blood pressure checked \u2013 the Briton went back on court, but then lost the \u00adsecond game to love and walked back to the net to shake Osorio\u2019s hand and\u00a0retire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu retired during the third set of her first-round match with the qualifier Camila Osorio at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-289379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}